Word: tirpitz
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...patriots sat down to compose letters to Secretary of State Kellogg, demanding that Boy-Ed be refused admission to the U. S., shameless journalists recalled an unwitting practical joke upon the U. S. Secret Service and upon Boy-Ed himself perpetrated by Grand Admiral von Tirpitz...
...just before Boy-Ed was recalled to Germany at the request of the State Department, the U. S. Secret Service intercepted a German cable addressed to him which read: "YOU MAY MARRY TIRPITZ." Puzzled, U. S. cryptographic experts toiled over these four words, failed to extract a meaning from what they took to be a fathomless code, at length goaded almost to distraction cautiously persisted in holding up the cable...
...shortly rise upon the Bartholoni property and on adjacent lots. Sir Eric's good humor vanished as he settled down to the vast batch of despatches which are his perennial due. Ominous developments concerning the League were occurring at London (see COMMONWEALTH, "Chamberlain Grilled"), at Berlin (see GERMANY, "Tirpitz Roused"), at Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "Houghton Stumbles...
...Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the "maiden speech" of Grand Admiral Alfred Friedrich von Tirpitz...
Throughout the week colorful personalities abounded in the Reichstag as concluding arguments for and against the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. Klara Zetkin, 68-year-old and rejuvenated* "Mother of German Communism," arrived from Moscow for the occasion. On the Nationalist bench the aged Admiral von Tirpitz stroked his pendulous forked beard...